What does the androgynous depiction of Hatshepsut—and its subsequent destruction—tell us about the role of gender in Ancient Egypt?
Because, you know, as an Egyptian, I should have known, but I think this also speaks
Poussin brought a new intellectual rigor to the classical impulse in art, as well as a unique, somewhat reticent poetry.
systems of belief—pagan, Jewish, Christian, Stoic, pantheistic—Poussin seems to have
On Friday, January 5, 2018, the Department of Textile Conservation hosted its Winter 2018 Colloquium, „Recent Presentations and Research.“
Conservators and fellows from all over the world have trained here.
“Nubia covers an area stretching along the Nile valley from the sixth cataract in the south to the first cataract in the north, which marks the southern border of pharaonic Egypt. The first distinct culture, designated A-Group by modern historians, develops in Lower Nubia between 3700–2800B.C. The A-Group people are eventually ruled by a series of powerful kings and later driven out by the Egyptians.”
The names given to the different cultures and cultural phases have been assigned
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The donors and The Met have agreed that these carefully preserved instruments must
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Henceforth, as one observer put it, the art of tapestries „will have to be given
The author and illustrator John Jennings discusses Seneca Village, Afrofuturism, and writing The Met’s first graphic novella.
All three of these figures are Black comic-book characters that have experienced
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
were so sincere and his manner of teaching so clear and so kindly that I think I have
“I wanted to be that commanding huntress, to live among a fleet of adoring nymphs and hounds and transform any man who crossed me.”
As my wife, a poet, put it: “Athena and all those male gods are like, ‘We have to
“During the first millennium B.C., bronze technology and then iron technology are introduced into the Korean peninsula, probably from the northern regions of the continental mainland, and are used to produce both utilitarian and ritual implements. Advances in metallurgy and a dependence on agriculture spur the development of a more complex social hierarchy, which is attested by increasingly elaborate burial practices. The migration of different populations into the peninsula from neighboring regions in Manchuria and Siberia during the Bronze Age also leads to regional variations in the material, form, and function of ceramic wares, including the appearance of painted wares. Ceramics of the Iron Age take even more diverse forms with the introduction of the potter’s wheel.”
the northwest, will for the next 400 years remain a Chinese colonial bastion and have
